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Reading Walker Percy...

Prof.Michael Payne (MWPayne@aol.com)

Reading Walker Percy made sense of my struggle . . .a struggle articulated forcefully in Kierkegaard but with a unique twentieth-century character in the novels of Percy. As one whose spirit has been sullied by existence in our strip-mall littered American decadence, Percy offers hope . . . not the varnished kind of hope that politicians and some preachers offer, but the kind that speaks most deeply to the human soul. He also led me to appreciate a sip of bourbon on especially humid days.

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